The number needed to treat, that is, the average number of patients a clinician needs to treat with a particular therapy to prevent one bad outcome,1 is a translation into clinical terms of the ...

The usual methodology employed in analysis after a sequential clinical trial is based on orderings of the possible samples resulting from the design. However, this approach lacks flexibility for use ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Biometrika is primarily a journal of statistics in which emphasis is placed on papers containing original theoretical contributions of direct or ...

This course emphasizes the design and conduct of epidemiology studies. Major topics covered include: casual inference in epidemiology, point and interval estimation for cohort and case control studies ...